About TEXL and our team

Welcome to TEXL.org

TEXL helps educators, individuals, companies and researchers who want to use scientifically validated personal development tools by reducing time to create, administer and analyse surveys and simplifying access to rigorous validated measures, unlike other tools in Wild-West of personal development.

Through our online platform TEXL offers a ‘plug and play’ library of over 50+ (and growing) measures for 360 feedback, assessing a variety of personal development concepts. It provides in platform instant personalised results for both participants and survey creators, complete with peer and global benchmark comparisons and over time tracking.

We provide a simple to use, headache free, individualised, sophisticated survey tool with scientifically based assessments for learning and research that educators, employers, and individuals can use. Our platform allows time efficient survey compilation with interactive global benchmarking of results and lifetime access for individuals allowing them to return over time to compare themselves to others. Best of all, it provides everyone with the opportunity to compare themselves against different demographics from our ever-growing global database.

Our team consists of Dr Michelle Mahdon, Prof Niels Van Quaquebeke, Prof Alex Gerbasi, Yaxin Zhen and Ishika Hastu.  Our platform is endorsed and funded by the League of Leadership, ESRC Cross funding, University of Exeter and KLU. 

We are a group of academics who became frustrated with the state of survey-based people assessments in the domain of 

leadership development. On the one hand, companies often base their feedback on highly questionable junk, which inevitably then follows a garbage-in-garbage-out logic and makes it hard to compare results across companies. On the other hand, if one wants to deploy scientifically validated assessments, then one has to search far and wide for appropriate measures. Putting these all together in one easy-to-use 360° assessment not only means a lot of headache but also requires significant resources. We want to fix this!  

Note that our platform is in the early stages of development and offers the opportunity for disruption across the field of leadership.  We are continually reflecting and improving upon it. As we grow in both data and capabilities the platform will provide more power of benchmarking to support the development of leadership skills.

 We are open for feedback! Drop us a note for additional suggestions, [email protected] and, before you do, maybe check out our upcoming developments (here). There are plenty additional exciting features already in the pipeline.